Phillips 66 Names Communications & Public Affairs Executive

Tripp to oversee corporate reputation and brand management

July 12, 2013

Karen C. Tripp

HOUSTON --Phillips 66 has named Karen C. Tripp vice president of communications and public affairs. Tripp will oversee corporate reputation and brand management, community and philanthropic investments, public policy, media engagement, and employee and digital communications.

Tripp has nearly 25 years of marketing and communications experience and most recently served as executive vice president for the Hartford Financial Services Group. She has prior experience in executive positions at L-3 Communications, General Electric and Rockwell Collins.

Tripp earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of North Dakota. She is a licensed pilot and flight instructor. She has served on the boards of the Fine Arts Fund and the American Red Cross.

Built on more than 130 years of experience, Phillips 66 is a growing energy manufacturing and logistics company with high-performing midstream, chemicals, refining, and marketing and specialties businesses. This diverse portfolio enables Phillips 66 to capture opportunities in a changing energy landscape. Based in Houston, the company has 13,500 employees who are committed to operating excellence and safety.

Houston-based Phillips 66 is an energy manufacturing and logistics company with midstream, chemicals, refining, and marketing and specialties businesses. With more than 8,000 retail fuel sites and general aviation locations, its U.S. Marketing business supplies Top Tier Detergent Gasolines under the Phillips 66, 76 and Conoco brands. The Phillips 66 brand, with its distinctive shield icon, has been serving the needs of the motoring public since 1927. With its iconic red ball, the 76 brand provides Top Tier Detergent Gasolines that are sold at more than 1,900 retail fuel sites on the West Coast. For more than 100 years, the Conoco brand has been providing high-performance petroleum products to more than 2,400 retail fuel sites. Phillips 66 Aviation markets and distributes its aviation fuel under the Phillips 66 Wings logo.

Since 2003 CSP magazine has ranked No. 1 in readership and market share over all other industry publications. C-store marketers have identified CSP as the preferred magazine source for their trade marketing communications. With industry-leading, highly targeted circulation to more than 100,000 subscribers, CSP reaches the key convenience retailing decision-makers fifteen times a year.